Five Questions To Ensure Meaningful Engagement

Overview

Over the past several years, there have been repeated calls both in and out of law enforcement for police departments to ask for public input on department policies and practices. But developing healthy community-police engagement is not easy, and there are few models for what this sort of engagement even should look like.

Here are five questions that police departments or city officials should answer at the outset of any engagement process to ensure it is effective.

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